Bell Potter, ANZ and E*Trade sale: the Aitken tale gets curiouser

With his statement of claim having been lodged in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday, and the prospect of his grievances being argued by the legal rottweiller himself, Bruce McClintock SC, we thought Angus Aitken's lawsuit against Shayne Elliott & Co. at ANZ couldn't get any more exciting.

But it seems we were wrong. It all just gets curiouser and curiouser, with reports that Aitken's former employer, Bell Potter was engaged in no less than two very important corporate deals with ANZ at the time of the colourful stockbroker's dismissal.